Payment gateway provider MOL AccessPortal has taken a majority investment in U.S.-based Rixty to expand its reach outside of the Asia Pacific region. We sought out MOL for additional insights into this investment. Update: Post updated to attribute interview responses to Craig White. We...

Research shows that enhanced security and improved multi-device access drive online shopping growth. Visa recently conducted a study called The Visa e-Commerce Consumer Monitor Research 2012 in collaboration with TNS, and discovered that nine out of ten people have performed an online purchase...

Deezer, a music-streaming service recently introduced in Singapore, has just received US$ 130 million in funding from Access Industries. Huge fan of music? Deezer is a French web-based music streaming website launched back in 2007. It allows users to listen to music on various devices, online...

Dealguru, the company behind Deal.com.sg and one of Singapore’s largest group buying sites, has just announced its acquisition of Asian Room Service, which runs Room Service Deliveries. The news was first reported by SGEntrepreneurs, with the terms of the acquisition undisclosed. Founded...

The financial tech startup scene is a marathon and not a sprint, shares our guest contributor ST Chua, who is a serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of Perfectsen, a B2B financial technology startup. Many have ask how different is it to build a startup in the financial technology space as...

Dropbox, the cloud storage software many of us are familiar with, has just launched one if its most brilliant marketing campaigns ever: The Dropbox Space Race. The idea is very simple. Students who sign up for a Dropbox account using their university e-mail account get an initial 3GB of space...

A creative event that brings together the creatives, hackers and entrepneurs to a single space, Creative Mixer is now back for its fourth installation. With eight speakers delivering bite-sized presentations on creativity across diverse fields and other 100 opinion leaders and...

Launchgarage has announced its initial set of supported startups. The pioneer batch has kicked off, with four tech startup teams receiving funding, support and mentorship. Launchgarage launched its pioneer call for startups last September with the aim of guiding startups through the idea,...

After Startup Weekends in Manila and Davao, the Philippines’ queen city of the south is also getting a taste of serious startup fun with Startup Weekend Cebu. The Philippines is blessed to have consecutive Startup Weekend events. A week after Startup Weekend in Davao, organizers are...

Indonesia-based mobile marketing startup Stilomo launches an Android app to help merchants increase brand awareness through social media. Shortly after we reported that the mobile loyalty space is heating up in Indonesia with newcomer Pouch, another similar app has just launched....

Consumer cloud has hit 375 million subscribers since June this year and is expected to reach 1.3 billion by 2017. Consumer cloud has seen an explosive growth this year. According to insights from the IHS iSuppli Mobile and Wireless Communications Service, the number of personal subscriptions...

Startup Weekend is coming to Davao City once again. Startup founders, developers, techies and investors are invited. Startup Weekend has come and gone in Manila, and the event series is once again going to the south. On November 9 to 11, Davao will be hosting this startup event, again...

For our Founders Drinks this month, Straits Times senior correspondent Grace Chng, who covers technology and startup news here and globally, will be sharing what it takes to get coverage in the local media. Grace has over twenty years of experience in journalism. She currently covers news...

KKBOX, one of the leading music subscription service in the greater China region, is expanding to Singapore and Malaysia soon. KKBOX, one of the leading cloud music platform in the greater China region, is looking to expand its service to Singapore and Malaysia. According to KKBOX’s COO,...

When John and Billy Martyn studied in Japan, they found that the absence of technology in language schools caused teachers to spend far too much time managing assignments, hand-grading papers and keeping track of student progress manually. A few years later, they started Language Cloud, a...